Vytautas Bacevičius

Photo: Lithuanian Archives of Literature and Art

Vytautas Bacevičius (1905-1970), composer and pianist, exceptional personality in the Lithuanian music history, one of the first avant-garde composer of the interwar period. He "is the first Lithuanian composer, who leads towards contemporary European music culture", wrote another Lithuanian modernist Jeronimas Kačinskas in 1932. Vytautas Bacevičius' piano and symphonic music legacy is especially large and valuable, and, after Čiurlionis, takes a very special place in the Lithuanian music history.